Basin and bath-tub attachment.



UNITED STATES PATENT ()FFIGE.

GEORGE A, STEINER AND JOHN EVANS, JR, OF SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH.

BASIN AND BATH-TUB ATTACHMENT.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 21, .19 07.

Application filed October 1,1906. Serial No. 337,033.

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that we, GEORGE A. STEINER and JOHN EVANS, Jr, citizens ofthe United of which the following is a specification.

Our improvement relates to means for holding soap, combs, brushes etc.,conveniently for use in connection with wash-basins and bath-tubs. It isof a kind that employs a pulley and chain with a balance weight, tomaintain the article held by it, in the desired position. The balanceweights are vertically adjustable and are also attachable to each other,and to a standard, which serves as a guide to the weights in theirmovements.

The accompanying drawing illustrates the device, reference being made tothe various parts of the invention by figures, similar figure denotingcorresponding parts in the several views.

In the drawing Figure 1 is a general view of the device in sideelevation. Fig. 2 is an elevation partly in section on line a;m of Fig.1.

The invention comprises a standard 1, preferably an iron bar, and havingat its bottom, a rigid arm 2, which is attachable to the tub, orwash-basin fixtures by a yoke 3. The arm 2 is provided with oblong slots4 and with round holes 5 for the legs of the yoke 3, which can passthrough them in two different directions, at a right angle to eachother, to better adapt the arm for attachment to either a vertical, or ahorizontal fixture. Nuts 6, on the threaded ends of the yoke legs,enable the yoke to be tightly bound on the fixture.

The main balance weight 7, has a perforated ear 8 to which a chain 9 isattached. This chain passes over a grooved pulley 10, which has bearingson the upper part of the standard 1. The article to be held is attachedto the depending end of chain 9, by any preferred means. The weights arenested, and through each one is a central vertical hole 19, throughwhich extends the standard 1, upon which the weights freely move, andare vertically adjustable. The weight 7 maintains the lightest articlein equilibrium, or slightly overbalances it, so that the article isdrawn up out of the way, when not in use. WVhen the chain is extended bydrawing out the article held, the weight 7 rises, but is prevented fromstriking the pulley, by a collar 11, which is adjustably set on thestandard by a set screw 12.

A lateral hole 13 is provided in the top, or main weight 7, and a screw14, is adapted to enter this hole until its end enters the recess orhole in the Weight next below it, and so connects the two weightstogether. It is sometimes desirable to temporarily bind the main weightto the standard, in order to maintain the article carried on the chainat the same relative distance from the pulley, and so the screw 14 ismade long enough to be screwed in until its point bears against thestandard 1: and when an extra weight as 15, is attached to the mainweight, the screw 14 passes through the hole 16, in said added weight.

Other additional weights may be provided as desired, each having arecess 17, to engage the point of a screw 18, of the weight next aboveit.

The lowest weight rests on a platform 20, on the lower part of thestandard 1.

What we claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In an attachment for basins and bathtubs a balancing weight on astandard, said weight surrounding said standard and having a chamber inits lower part and a lateral hole entering said chamber and a screw insaid hole for the purpose specified.

2. In an attachment for basins and bath- I tubs a standard, a weightvertically adjustable thereon, a collar on said standard to limit theascent of said weight, and means to temporarily bind said weight to saidstand- I ard, substantially as described.

3. An attachment to basins and bathtubs comprising a standard, a weightthereon having a chamber in its lower part and a lateral screw hole, anadditional weight whose upper part is adapted to occupy the chamber inthe weight next above it and having a recess in said upper part, and ascrew in the screw hole of the weight next above it to engage saidrecess for the purpose stated.

4. In a basin and bath-tub attachment, a standard, an arm on saidstandard having a set of cross openings therethrough consisting of aslot and a hole, a yoke having threaded legs adapted to enter said slotand hole and nuts on said legs to tighten up said yoke, as described.

5. In an attachment for basins and bathtubs having a vertical supportingstandard,

a fixed arm on the bottom of said standard In testimony whereof I havesigned my having two sets of cross openings therename to thisspecification in the presence of 10 through at a right angle to eachother, each tWo subscribing Witnesses. I

set of said openings consisting of a slot and a GEORGE A. STEINER. roundhole, a yoke Whose threaded legs are JOHN EVANS, JR. adapted to passthrough said openings and Witnesses:

nuts on said legs to tighten up said yoke, as WILLIAM R. PoLLooK,

herein set forth. THOMAS A. LoWRY.

